The document discusses how SAP Streamwork and SAP PLM can be integrated to enhance engineering collaboration by allowing engineering teams, including external partners, to organize and manage information efficiently. It outlines key functionalities of Streamwork, such as discussion forums, document sharing, and data transfer, which streamline product development processes. Additionally, it highlights the benefits of using Streamwork, including ease of access, faster decision-making, and improved visibility of team contributions.

1. Assisting Companies Leverage
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Review How SAP StreamWork And SAP
PLM Can Work Together To Support
Engineering Collaboration
Eric Stajda, PLM Practice Director
www.LeverX.com
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Every Engineering team requires a central location where
they can organize information, decisions, and key activities
Engineering teams have been extended to include external
partners not in the same physical location or on the same IT
infrastructure
It is key to include these external partners in processes,
decision, and to share information
Engineering has a tremendous amount of data and
decisions to manage and classify
Specifications, Drawings, Engineering Changes, BOMs, Test
Data, Regulatory Information/Certificates, Features, Functions,
Usability Reports, Color Decisions, …
StreamWork provides a central location where
Engineering teams can work together in a
collaborative environment supporting information
generation and new product development processes
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StreamWork Tool Usage
Agendas Agenda for the next design review
Responsibility Matrix Who is responsible for what in the project
Timeline What is overall timeline for the product development cycle – e.g. when
are prototypes due?
Discussion Create a discussion to collaborate on a specific feature of the product
and how to improve it
Polls, Ranking, Pro/Con, Decisions Decide on features or on path to fixing a problem
Documents Share specifications, drawings, and other key items
Action Items Assign other to complete actions, e.g. assign a designer to complete
update to specific drawings and post the results back
Mind Mapping Generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid to
studying and organizing information, solving problems, making
decisions, and writing
Transfer SAP Data Transfer documents and other key engineering items from the backend
SAP system to StreamWork to leverage controlled assets and master
data (e.g. engineering change, materials, BOMs)
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Three reasons why SAP StreamWork is great leap forward
1. No infrastructure required
2. No adjustment of firewalls, proxies, etc.
3. Each partner can sign up on their own and be included into the
activities
Different price plans, including free
You do not need to purchase licenses for partners
Benefits for Engineering
Ensure a collective view where every voice is heard
Discussions, feedback, information, analyses, and decisions
are visible, so the team is committed to the outcome
Decision making is faster and of higher quality
User friendly and on demand, you can be productive in minutes
without a technology project
Integration with SAP system to push and pull data
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